Students Learn to Make Most Use of Copy Paper
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On Wednesdays, fifth-graders go classroom to classroom picking up boxes of paper to be recycled. In pairs, they gather the boxes and deposit the paper in recycling bins across the school parking lot.
On a recent round of pickups, teacher Nicole Quandt’s fifth-graders took their room assignments and spread out through the school.
There was some laughing and some feigned difficulty picking up the boxes, which can get heavy, but otherwise, they worked hard and seemed to understand deeply why they were there. Quandt’s class started the project about six weeks ago, she said.
Alani Black, an 11-year-old fifth-grader from Detroit, clearly explained the impact of not wasting paper.
“We do it so you don’t have to cut down trees, so it saves animals’ homes; it saves oxygen because oxygen comes from the trees,” she said.
Matthew Mixen, her 10-year-old classmate from Ferndale, nodded, agreeing. He also questioned the waste he had become so used to seeing.
“Some people write something, get it wrong and throw away the whole piece of paper,” he said. “Why can’t you just cross it out and write somewhere else on the paper? You don’t need a new sheet of paper.”
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